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Substring (select chunk of string by its position) |
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{{str sub new}} | Select a substring based on starting and ending index counted in either direction. | {{str left}} | Keep the first N characters of a string, or duplicate it to N characters. | {{str crop}} | Return all but the last N characters of a string. | {{str index}} | Return the N-th character of a string. |
| {{str right}} | Return substring starting at N-th character to end of string. | {{str rightc}} | Return the last N characters of a string; or a given value if empty. | {{str sub old}} | Return substring of given length starting at N-th character. |
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Trimming (select/remove chunk of string by character type) |
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{{trim}} | Trim any leading or trailing whitespace | {{str letter/trim}} | Trim down to the beginning letters. | {{str number/trim}} | Trim down to the beginning numbers. | {{trim brackets}} | Trim any leading or trailing square brackets. | {{trim quotes}} | Trim leading or trailing matching quotes. | {{trim leading}} | Trim up to six instances of specified <prefix>. |
| {{string split}} | Extract a short string from a long string. | {{first word}} | Trim down to the first space. | {{remove first word}} | Remove anything before the first space. | {{last word}} | Trim down from the last space. | {{remove last word}} | Remove anything after the last space. |
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Select/remove specific item from string |
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{{delink}}, {{trim brackets}} | Removes wikilink brackets (wikicode); all or outer only. | {{Plain text}} | Removes wikicode (formatting and brackets) | {{PAGENAMEBASE}} | Trim off any parenthesis text at the end of a string (disambiguation). | {{title disambig text}} | Returns text in parentheses at the end of a string (disambiguation). | {{WikiProjectbasename}} | Removes "WikiProject" from a pagename. |
| {{ship prefix}} | Returns the length of a ship's name prefix, if listed (ship names). | {{title year}} | Returns the 3-or-4-digit year from a pagename, if any. | {{title decade}} | Returns the 4-digit decade (e.g. "1740s") from a pagename, if any. | {{title number}} | Returns any number from a pagename. |
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Insertion, replacement and length |
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{{loop}} | Repeat character string a specified number of times. | {{replace}} | Returns the string, after replacing all occurrences of a specified string with another string. | {{str rep}} | Returns the string, after replacing the first occurrence of a specified string with another string. | {{digits}} | Returns the string, after removing all characters that are not digits 0–9 | {{Nowiki}} | Displays wikitext as plain text. |
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{{str len}} | Returns a string's length. | {{str ≥ len}} | Check if a string is "longer or equally long" or "shorter" than a given length. | {{str ≤ len}} | Check if a string is "shorter or equally long" or "longer" than a given length. | {{str ≠ len}} | Check if a string is "not equal" or "equal" to a given length. |
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Analysis and searching |
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{{str startswith}} {{str endswith}} | Check if a string starts or ends with a given string. | {{str find}}, {{strfind short}} | Returns the numerical location of a given string in a string. | {{in string}} | Returns optional string when given string is not found | {{str count}} | Count the number of occurrences of a pattern within a string. |
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{{a or an}} | Takes a noun and produces the appropriate indefinite article, based on whether the first letter is a vowel. | {{Array}} | Array manipulation and retrieval. | {{Font style}} | Returns bold or italic if the input value has either formatting. | {{Isnumeric}} | Returns number when true, blank when not numeric. | {{str letter}} | Returns the number of letters that begin a string. | {{str number}} | Returns the number of numbers that begin a string. |
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Modules and built-in functions |
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- Module:String, Module:String2, Module:Ustring, Module:Text, wikitext handling: modules that together contain most necessary string functions.
- Magic words: About
{{padleft:|}} , {{lc:|}} , {{formatnum:|}} etc.
- ParserFunctions: About
{{#titleparts:|}}, {{#expr:|}}, {{#ifeq:|}}, etc.
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Category:String manipulation templates
Category:String manipulating modules
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Template documentation
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View or edit this documentation. (About template documentation)
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Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and test case pages.
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Template:String-handling templates/doc